Adam Kolawa is the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC. In 1983, he came to the United States from Poland to pursue his PhD. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the software development process. Adam's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of numerous successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality - often before the trends have been widely accepted. Adam has been granted 10 patents for the technologies behind these innovative products.
Kolawa, co-author of Bulletproofing Web Applications (Hungry Minds 2001), has contributed to and written over 100 commentary pieces and technical articles for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Java Developer's Journal, SOA World Magazine, AJAXWorld Magazine; he has also authored numerous scientific papers on physics and parallel processing. His recent media engagements include CNN, CNBC, BBC, and NPR. Additionally he has presented on software quality, trends and development issues at various industry conferences. Kolawa holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 2001, Kolawa was awarded the Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the software category.
Dr Adam Kolowa (pictured), Founder & CEO of Parasoft and panelist at SYS-CON
Events' "SOA Web Services Power Panel" at SOA Web Services Edge Conference
& Expo - June 5-6, 2006 - in New York City, writes:
Security has the inherent nature of spanning many different layers of a Web
Services system. Web Services vulnerabilities can be present in the operating
system, the network, the database, the Web server, the application server,
the XML parser, the Web Services implementation stack, the application code,
the XML firewall, the Web Service monitoring or management appliance, or just... (more)
Most organizations that use Linux as a business operating system are
developing their own applications for Linux - perhaps in response to the
current scarcity of packaged applications available on Linux. With so much
internal development for Linux, it is critical that the IT groups building
your Linux-based applications have a means to efficiently produce reliable
code. If they don't, yo... (more)
As a closing thought, let's consider our jobs and how to protect them. There
is a lot of instability in today's software industry, and the American sector
is losing its competitive edge. The problem is that U.S. developers are
overpaid with respect to what we produce, and people in other countries are
willing to produce a similar product for significantly less money.
We can worry and comp... (more)
Web services are gaining industry-wide acceptance and usage. They are moving
from proof-of-concept deployments to actual usage in mission-critical
enterprise applications. While Web services allow businesses to connect to
partners and customers, the same flexibility and connectivity provide an
increased opportunity for errors.
As companies and consumers rely more on Web services, it is in... (more)
Adam Kolawa is the co-founder and CEO of Parasoft, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the SDLC. In 1983, he came to the United States from Poland to pursue his PhD. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the software development process. Adam's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of numerous successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality - often before the trends have been widely accepted. Adam has been granted 10 patents for the technologies behind these innovative products.
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